AF Promotion Testing Windows Expand

Air Force officials are expanding the testing windows for Airmen beginning with the 07E6 and 07E7 cycles. The changes are part of an ongoing process to improve the enlisted promotion testing system, according to officials at the Air Force Personnel Center. “Some factors that drove this change were the increasing number of non-weighable Airmen due to deployments and temporary duty assignments testing outside the established window,” said Chief Master Sgt. Rusty Nicholson, enlisted promotion official at AFPC. The testing cycle is practically year round, he added. “Plus, large bases couldn’t complete testing under the current testing cycle.” The expanded testing window will help alleviate out-of-cycle testing, daily multiple testing sessions and weekend testing, said Nicholson. The window for promotion testing will be expanded as follows: 07E6/07E7 – Feb. 1 through March 31, 2007; 07E5 – May 1 through June 15, 2007.